Avinash Gaikwad, Author at NYRA

Tête-à-tête with Sarah Martins Da Silva

2024-04-05 by Avinash Gaikwad

Dr Sarah Martins da Silva is a Consultant Gynaecologist based at Ninewells Assisted Conception Unit, Ninewells Hospital Dundee. She is experienced in all aspects of subfertility investigation and management. Dr Martins da Silva qualified in 1995. During her specialist training she completed MD investigating various aspects of ovarian development and egg maturation (University of Edinburgh …

ACROSIN deficiency identified as a cause of total fertilization failure and thus, male infertility in humans

2023-12-182023-12-15 by Avinash Gaikwad

In a most recent study, Hua and colleagues have identified a rare homozygous nonsense mutation in the ACR gene as a causative factor for male infertility, specifically leading to Total Fertilization Failure (TFF) during in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts. The findings, published in Human Reproduction, shed light on the genetic basis of TFF, offering new …